ISO 216 vs U.S. paper

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Tue Feb 19 17:04:05 UTC 2008


On 2008-02-19, 16:44 GMT, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> Still, it's definately the way to go, why have an extra library 
> when glibc has everything that needed. Patching libpaper to use 
> LC_PAPER if /etc/paper.conf doesn't exist (and even trying to 
> get that upstream to do that with their libpaper) might be 
> useful too, not that anything in Fedora seems to even use it 
> currently.

I was in my former life Debianist and as such I know that there 
was a huge effort to move every printing program to libpaper 
(e.g., IIRC it was Release-Critical Bug not to use libpaper when 
you print), so there may be a lot of patches already available.  
But is it necessary?

Matěj




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